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Kolibri and Drache Ready to Download

baldy

baldy

SOH Staff
First picture of Flettner Fl 282 Kolibri helicopter on sea trials on board minelayer Drache in MTO.

Still lots of work to do

baldy
 
A very interesting part of the history!


Nice and neat idea. Love to see an heli & ship expert putting some efforts on realizing it virtually!
 
"Flettner Fl 282 Kolibri helo + minelayer Drache + MTO"....Cool...now there's a quite a bit of overlooked history.
 
Fl 282

Progress rep and pics

model,textures and dp done -still got lod, vc and panel to do

ship and basic take-off and land mission done

cheers

baldy

ps that is an observer looking out the back
 
Good one Baldy!

A nice suprise, many thanks.

I wondered who the site-seer was in the back?? :d

I didn't think it had enough power to carry two people, only a few very small bombs/depth charges?!!

Cheers

Shessi
 
Kolibri und Drache

Am uploading two files - one for the eggbeater and one for the ship

baldy
 
Baldy,
As ever, your work is spot on. Thank you! No doubt the landing pad will also serve as a good target.:d
 
But of course!

The basic design of the Fletner ended up with the US Helicopter company Kaman. They made the HH 43 Husky which used the same contra rotating-side-by-side rotor system. It was just larger with more advanced power plants.

When I was a boy, I thought that it was the weirdest thing in the sky. I didn't understand the advantages of the contra-rotating blades at the time.
 
Fl 282

I'm uploading the other two versions now - they represent the only Fl282s to fall into US hands at the end of the war - the Russians captured one example and the British found a frame with the rotor shafts.

Found a couple of really interesting sites

http://www.indianamilitary.org/freemanaaf/sothinkmenu/freemanstart.htm

where captured and allied stuff was evaluated and

http://helicopter-history.org/flettner282

for a German and an American film of the Kolibri

plus if you got ot YouTube there's some stuff on the Fa223

I might add some mines to the Drache if I get time

cheers

baldy
 
Drache

have added some mines - a bit rudimentary but they look the part - have uploaded new mdl

baldy
 
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